How many episodes are in Wednesday?

Wednesday has 8 episodes in this listed season.

When does Wednesday premiere?

Wednesday premieres on 2025-08-06.

Is Wednesday a new series?

Wednesday is a returning series (Season 2).

Wednesday(2022)

Also known as 《亚当斯一家》真人衍生剧 • 星期三·亚当斯 • 星期三·阿达

Archived · Netflix

8.0128 eps

S02

Sci-Fi & FantasyMysteryComedySupernatural

ON AIR: AUG 6Season 2Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Wednesday pairs a gothic whodunit with dark, dry comedy, letting its teenage sleuth answer horror with a flat stare and a cutting remark. Clues, suspects, and red herrings keep the murder investigation moving, while psychic visions pull earlier events into the present. The mood is moderately spooky and sometimes gory, but the quick pace and deadpan humor keep the mystery playful.

Boarding-school life brings a different kind of friction: rival cliques, roommate clashes, and a love triangle complicate Wednesday’s efforts to pursue answers. Vampires, werewolves, sirens, and witches share the halls, making supernatural strangeness part of everyday school life. Her prickly family bond adds a more personal problem, as digging into the past means confronting secrets involving her own parents.

Best for

gothic whodunit, dark deadpan comedy and Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Story lane

Sci-Fi & Fantasy and Mystery

Commitment

Season 2 · 8 episodes

Where

Netflix

Official Premise

Follows Wednesday Addams' years as a student, when she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a killing spree, and solve the mystery that embroiled her parents.

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Start with the closest match, then check out two more shows with a similar feel, pace, mood, or theme.

School Spirits

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Maddie, a teen stuck in the afterlife investigating her own disappearance, goes on a crime-solving mission as she adjusts to high-school purgatory.

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Strongest Match

Wednesday makes school life feel eerie and funny at once, with teen cliques and sharp banter wrapped around a murder mystery. School Spirits brings that mix to ghostly hallways, where a tight circle of dead classmates trades jokes and clues, with a more bittersweet warmth beneath the scares.

Coven Academy

Freeform • Oct 1, 2026

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Teen witch apprentices band together to defend New Orleans against an approaching dark force.

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Why this pick

Wednesday’s mix of supernatural danger, school rivalries, and dry humor makes Coven Academy an easy next watch. Its teenage witches juggle crushes and friendships between spells and fast-moving scares, with a more playful, adventurous feel than Wednesday’s gothic mystery.

Gen V

Prime Video • Sep 17, 2025

DramaAction

From the world of The Boys comes Gen V, which explores the training of the first generation of superheroes to know about Compound V, and that their powers were injected into them, rather than God-given. These young, competitive heroes put their physical and moral boundaries to the test, competing for the school's highly coveted top ranking. They quickly come to learn that ambition comes with sacrifice, and the difference between right and wrong is not as clear as they once believed. When the university's dark secrets come to light, the students must come to grips with what type of heroes they are going to become.

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Why this pick

Wednesday turns school rivalries and buried secrets into darkly funny supernatural trouble, and Gen V brings that teen-campus tension with a much bloodier edge. Its young powered students trade sharp jokes amid body horror and dangerous competition, while a season-long mystery keeps the reveals coming.

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